Tips for Green Moving
Me? I don't have to worry about moving because my husband says we will never move again. The last move across country just about killed him, and he wasn't even there. He was already living in an apartment in Sacramento and working here. I was the one who had to sell the house, pack it up, supervise the movers and drive across country by myself.
We had four floors of furniture and gobs of boxes. I lost count around 90 or so. Some of it was stuff that I had been carting around since the late 1970s. Boxes of bus receipts and old telephone invoices. Boxes of towels, sheets, bedspreads, pots and pans -- I donated piles of stuff to charity.
Then, after I arrived in Sacramento, I still ended up renting a 30-ton dumpster to throw away more stuff because we moved into a single story without attic storage nor a basement. No wonder people don't park in their garages around here. Now, my motto is nothing comes into the house unless something leaves . . . read more about Green Moving.
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If the houses were built properly mold would not happen.
The builders should have required reading: “Sick Building Syndrome” by David Straus should be first.
Houses, even a hundred years old do not have mold. They were built with pride by craftsmen.
Now houses are built air tight,with low quality materials. These house many times have faulty roofs. They are built with little supervision and by workers who have little or no training.
If the insurance companies did their jobs and inspected these houses before they wrote the policies it would not be necessary for them to keep dropping coverage all the while raising rates. The insurance companies also have clauses that state they do not cover builder defects or substandard construction and many of the new houses sure are sub standard.
Insurance companies will be glad to take your premiums. Just do not try to make a claim. Then you are not covered. You can’t just drop the insurance or the mortgage company will call the mortgage.
Once again the consumer is screwed every way possible. Insurance companies and builders plan, unfortunately they just plan on how to get more of your money.
Consumers aren’t in good hands with all state. It is sad that the American Dream has been allowed to deteriorate into such a sham.
Please google my name for more on the housing debacle, bad builders and substandard construction.
Hello Jordan and welcome to Home Buying & Selling! You might want to discuss some of concerns with other readers in the Home Buying Community Forum. Look for the link on this page.
A few years back I saw a very earth-friendly move - a cohort of about 20 people were towing trailers behind bicycles moving a friend’s belongings. They apparently are the MoveByBike folks.
We didn’t move by bike, we had a giant 18-wheeler do it and top-notch professional movers.
We moved after 21 years in our old house. I spent 4 months shredding old documents and umpteen trips to the paper recycling center (it is near a friend’s house, so it wasn’t a single-purpose trip).
We had two garage sales and I made 6 donation trips to charities for the leftovers.
I was very disappointed that there are no cloth recyclers for items such as old socks and underwear and t-shirts that are too
tattered to donate.
All of our moving boxes were cardboard shipping boxes from work. They would have been recycled anyway, but they were barely used. We then passed them along to another family who was going to move. These boxes had dividers in them already, so I didn’t need bubble wrap, just paper wrapping some glassware.
We still had 3 small dumpsters-worth of non-recyclables/non-donatables to discard.
I now definitely am more conscious of NOT accumulating any paper! We have a mailing center to shred any incoming shreddables and a box for the paper recycling. It goes out to the curb recycling diligenly each week!
Hi! Moving really takes time and energy and it’s really best to plan ahead especially if you are the only one doing all the relocation. Ecofriendly moving means you have to give away everything that you don’t need in your new house, even if that means parting with your beloved paperbacks. The things you don’t need is a treasure for somebody else.
Hi! Moving really takes time and energy and it’s really best to plan ahead especially if you are the only one doing all the relocation. Ecofriendly moving means you have to give away everything that you don’t need in your new house, even if that means parting with your beloved paperbacks. The things you don’t need is a treasure for somebody else.